This book investigates the impact of social phenomena such as recently created nation states, emerging international confederations, cross-national migration, and contemporary global forces on ethnic and national identities in Europe and beyond. The articles in this volume are written by leading international scholars, based on a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches, and offer a multifaceted discussion of the challenging issue of collective identities.

Franz Höllinger is Professor at the Department of Sociology at Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, Austria. Markus Hadler is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, USA.

Content Introduction7 I Determinants and Effects of National Identity19 Postmodern Ethnicity: Diversity and Difference Albert F. Reiterer21 National Pride, Patriotism and Nationalism: Methodological Reflections and Empirical Analyses Franz Höllinger, Jürgen Fleiß and Helmut Kuzmics45 National Identity and Attitudes towards Immigrants in a Comparative Perspective Jorge Vala and Rui Costa-Lopes71 Religion and National Identity in an Enlarging Europe Miroslav Tízik101 A Success Story of Creating National Identity in Tanzania: The Vision of Julius Kambarage Nyerere Bernadette Müller125 Collective Representations of Atrocities and National Identity: The Case of Darfur Joachim J. Savelsberg and Hollie Nyseth149 II From National to Transnational Identity177 The Contingency of Europe's Boundaries Josef Langer179 Austro-Hungarian Monarchy Memory Trace in the Central European Countries Magdalena Piscová and Miloslav Bahna201 Political Unification and the Purported European Society: On the Social Basis of European Integration Stefan Immerfall221 All or Nothing: Identity Bonding to Europe, the Nation, or Neither in a Changing Geopolitical Environment Markus Hadler, Lynn Chin and Kiyoteru Tsutsui237 National and Transnational Identities of Intra-European Migrants Michael Braun and Walter Müller263 "Interethnic Alliances" and National We-Images: An Analysis of Internet Fora Related to Sport and Migration Dieter Reicher289 Institutional Theories of Education in Supra-National Society John W. Meyer and Francisco O. Ramirez311 List of Scientific Publications of Max Haller331 About the Authors351